On a flop of 
and with 2,600 in the pot, Alex Outhred checked the action to his lone opponent. That player bet 1,500, enough to put Outhred all in if he called. He did choose to call with 
, two overcards and an inside straight draw. His opponent showed a pair of deuces, 
, for a set. Outhred's draw filled immediately as the turn came 
to give him a jack-high straight. He hung on after the river 
failed to pair the board. Outhred is up to about 4,500.
Chino Rheem was not happy to be snap-called all in by the player on his left. The size of Rheem's raise had been to 3,925 (with no rebuy lammers left behind) after an opening raise was re-raised all in by a different player to 1,575. Rheem knew his 
was in bad shape and he was right. The short stack had 
, but the player who called Rheem's raise -- and had Rheem covered -- showed down 
.
That was no problem for Rheem after an eight-high flop, 
, gave him a set of eights. The turn and river were both face cards, but they were 
and 
, not enough to overtake Rheem's set. He now has about 10,000 chips.
We're noticing now that a significantly higher percentage of the field has burned their rebuy lammers. That includes Justin Bonomo, whose stack is down to 4,800 after a recent encounter with Steven van Zadelhoff. Van Zadelhoff was all in before the flop with 
. Bonomo took him on with 
but wound up taking a knock as the board rolled out 
to make a pair of aces for van Zadelhoff. That gave van Zadelhoff a double up to 4,100, with both of his rebuy lammers still available. Bonomo slipped to 4,800, no rebuy lammers left at his disposal.
T.J. Cloutier has been a presence at the World Series of Poker for a long, long time. He's also looking to be a presence for a long time in today's event. In position, he called a bet on the turn of a 
board. The two were heads-up to the river 
, where that player tried a bet of 1,200.
"1,200?" Cloutier asked. "I call."
"Ace-high," his opponent said. Cloutier showed down 
for a turned jacks and sixes to take down the pot. Having burned his rebuy chips, he's up to 15,500.
Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
That's two levels down, and the clock has been paused for the first twenty-minute break of the day.
We've got at least one or two bracelet ceremonies to take care of as well here in the Pavilion, so we'll be back shortly.
A player in early position opened to 350, and Gavin Griffin called a few seats over. They were the only two to the flop, and it came 
. The raiser checked and called a bet of 525 from Griffin, and he check-called another 900 on the 
turn. The 
filled out the board on fifth street, and Griffin made a healthy bet of 3,300. That was finally enough to move his opponent off his hand, and Griffin stacked the pot to move up to 14,000.
Apparently things did not go very well for Frank Kassela in the early stages of this tournament. When we last passed by his table, he was down from the starting stack of 3,000 to just 275 -- with no rebuy chips left to burn. As we watched, a player opened pre-flop for 250 and was called in multiple spots. Kassela, on the button, just called the 250, leaving himself exactly 25 behind. That last quarter went in on a flop 
. Kasella turned up 
for a pair of sevens; his opponent showed 
, a pair of queens. The turn and river 
sent Kassela home early.
"Good luck to y'all," said Kassella. "I guess I could have played better."
Sandra Naujoks opened the pot with an early-position raise, and a player a couple seats over reraised to 700. Naujoks made it 2,175 to go, her opponent moved all in, and Naujoks called off the rest of her first set of chips, leaving herself just the two red rebuy lammers. Cards up lady and gent:
Naujoks:
Opponent: 
The board came 
, and that holds the aces and pulls a stack from Naujoks. She used both of her lammers after the hand, and she's back to 6,000 and out of rebuy chances.
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